steering by click, no by arrows

[shaku88]

Hi,

I'm steering my object using left and right arrow

I want to steer left when I click and hold on the left side of screen
and steer right on click on the right side of screen.

How can I done it?

I tried combine pointer in zone and repeat while pressing
and tried move object by set direction and start movement
but it isn't work

[Popcorn]

Hey, what movement do you use and what kind of movement do you want? Is the object only supposed to go left and right?
The built-in movements are not very customizable, so you'd most likely want to create your own.

[danjo]

repeat while left mouse button is down
+ Xpos of mouse < frame width/2

= left


...


repeat while left mouse button is down
+ Xpos of mouse > frame width/2

= Right

you may want to tweak the (frame width/2) perhaps (frame width /2 )*0.75
to null the middle of the screen

* for the Xpos condition - use (compare 2 values)


DONT FORGET - to add [negated] repeat while mouse down to stop steering...

[shaku88]

Popcorn, yes, my creature can move only left and right

danjo it is exactly what I want but.... how to do LEFT / RIGHT action?
how to press steering button?

in Player1 column I've got only:
Socore
Number of lives
Player Control ->
->ignore control
-> restore control
-> set input device
-> set key
set player name

I tried do action on the object SetDirection and Move->Start but it doesn't work

[zip2kx]

Do you use ball movement? Platform movement? 8 dir? It's impossble to say without know how your game actually works.

[shaku88]

I'm using 8 dir with 2 directions enabled (left and right)

[aenever]

Here's an example using the 8 Directions, hope it helps. Very simple coding, nothing fancy yet effective

Car Example AEnever.mfa

[shaku88]

hahaha it was so easy, thanks aenever
I missed set speed / acceleration